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Title: TV Recording Question.
Post by: Marko on January 08, 2003, 02:59:29 am

Not sure if this is a bug, or a lack of general knowledge on my part...

(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/77.jpg)
If I say yes, the screen goes black and the frame counter displays. The .wmv file is saved correctly (except for a pixel-wide noise line in the top line of the the display, like so.....)
(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/85.jpg)
If I say no, MC then tells me this....
(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/78.jpg)

Anyone got any ideas about this?
I figure there must be a setting in the TV card driver, the graphics drivers, MC itself, or maybe a combo of them all.
What to look for and where to find it is where I begin to falter ;) ?

System Info
Media Jukebox PLUS 9.0.88 -- C:\Program Files\Media Center\

Microsoft Windows XP  Workstation 5.1 Service Pack 1 (Build 2600)
AMD Athlon 1610 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1048 MB, Free - 607 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2800.1106 / ComCtl32.dll: 6.00.2800.1106 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.00.2800.1106
Shell32.dll: 6.00.2800.1145 / wnaspi32.dll: Internal ASPI Layer

Ripping /   Drive L:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive Q:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Drive R:   Copy mode:ModeBurstBigBuffer   CD Type:Auto   Read speed:Max
 Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: Yes /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: No /  Copy volume: 32767
 Eject after ripping: No /  Play sound after ripping: No  

Burning /  Drive R: PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-W1610A   Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:16  MaxSpeed:16  Lib:2  GHS:1  Use MJ Engine:No
 Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Two second gap: No /  Write CD-Text: No
 Use playback settings: No /  Normalization: None

Title: Re: TV Recording Question.
Post by: Yaobing on January 08, 2003, 05:19:06 am

Hi Marko,

Both error messages are from my code. They are displayed when DirectShow returns an unspecified (generic) error code. The error most likely comes from the driver.

The only thing that I can think of right now is to update your TV card driver, if you have not already done so.

What TV card do you have? And what is the version of the driver?

Other users of the same type of card may have more ideas to help you.

Regarding the little noise line on top of the recorded video, do you see something similar while not recording (just watching TV)? Have you tried checking "TV Options"->"Edge Cropping" from right-click menu?

Yaobing

Title: Re: TV Recording Question.
Post by: Marko on January 08, 2003, 09:00:37 am

Evening Yaobing, thnx for the support.....

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The only thing that I can think of right now is to update your TV card driver, if you have not already done so.

1st thing I did. Using these WDM whql drivers from hauppauge....
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/sw_wcst.htm#wdm  (whql331_20340.exe)

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What TV card do you have? And what is the version of the driver?

I have a Hauppauge WinTV 2000 PCI card. They have a "product info" tool on their website, here are the results it gives me....
(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/87.jpg)

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Regarding the little noise line on top of the recorded video, do you see something
similar while not recording (just watching TV)? Have you tried checking "TV Options"->"Edge Cropping" from right-click menu?

There's no noise line visible under normal viewing (windowed or full screen) and using Edge Cropping doesn't fix things.
(http://foc.no-ip.com/pics/22.jpg)

Hope the extra info helps someone to help me:)

Reckon it would be worth trying an older driver?

Title: Re: TV Recording Question.
Post by: Marko on January 10, 2003, 08:19:37 am

older drivers didn't help:(